Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Hacking News & Cyber Updates: 11th Sept 7 PM



Why Facebook Is Paying the Tax Tab on Employee Compensation
New York Times
Facebook announced last week that it planned to use cash to pay off a $1.9
billion tax bill related to restricted stock units that Facebook had granted to
employees over the years. It's odd timing for a tax bill. Why would Facebook,
not the employees ...

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Twitter, Facebook and Mobile Ads: Why They Matter
Huffington Post
In a reassuring report that proved young people stuck around after the VMAs,
President Obama's speech last week at the DNC produced a record of 52,757
tweets a minute on Twitter. The week before, Governor Romney's speech
sparked 14,239 tweets a ...
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Facebook's Woes Dim Interest in Indian E-Commerce
Wall Street Journal (blog)
“Facebook's listing debacle, followed by declines in the value of online businesses listed in the U.S. recently, has led to scrutiny of e-commerce business models,” said Mahesh Murthy, co-founder of Seedfund, an early-stage investor in online businesses.
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US enlists Facebook for new suicide prevention strategy
NBCNews.com (blog)
A new nationwide strategy to prevent suicides, especially among U.S. military
veterans and younger Americans, will tap Facebook Inc as part of a community-driven
push to report concerns before someone takes their own life. The new Facebook
service will ...
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Taliban Using Fake Facebook Accounts for Intelligence Gathering, Report Says
Mashable
An Australian government review of social media and defense, completed in March,
revealed that the Taliban is using fake Facebook profiles to obtain intelligence from
unsuspecting military personnel. According to the report, one strategy employed by ...
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Tendulkar's Facebook page an instant hit
New York Daily News
11 -- Sachin Tendulkar on Monday joined social networking site Facebook getting
overwhelming response from his fans as he got more than 400,000 'likes' within
hours of his first post. "I'll like to welcome you to my facebook family. As a child, I ...
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Prices of Facebook stock since long-awaited IPO
CBS News
They allege that analysts at the large underwriting investment banks cut their financial
forecasts forFacebook just before the IPO and told only a handful of clients. Facebook
and the banks overseeing the IPO insist that nothing about its IPO process ...
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Fake Facebook profile aids killer of Texas teen who babysat for him
Examiner.com
Every nine minutes a U.S. teen gets hurt on the job according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But 16-year-old Texas teen Shania Gray not only was raped on her babysitting job, she was also later murdered by her attacker when it ...
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Instacube Announces Facebook Photo Integration
Embedded.com
11, 2012. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Instacube,
the latest Kickstarter darling, announced Friday that they will support Facebook photos
upon reaching their stretch goal of $500,000 (double their initial asking of $250 ...
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Is Facebook selling your conversations to advertisers? Some advertisers say yes
Examiner.com
Facebook was chastised online Monday by Ad Age, a company known for advertising and marketing news. It seems that Facebook has been telling users of the social media website one thing, but telling potential advertisers something else. In other words...
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Authorities seek creator of threatening Facebook pages
Philadelphia Inquirer
Joshua Scott Albert first stirred anger last month with a Facebook page titled "I
Support Chancier McFarland & Rafael Jones," referring to the men charged with
the murder of Officer Moses Walker Jr. Albert, who won brief notoriety as the man
behind an ...
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Don't Freak Out About Facebook's Mobile Ad Revenue
By Dave Copeland
News outlets breathlessly reported last week that Twitter was projected to overtake
Facebook in mobile ad revenue for 2012. But they were missing the bigger picture.
ReadWriteWeb
That Pretty New Facebook Friend? Probably Taliban
By Brian Barrett
In the good ol' days of spy vs. spy, the honeypot was a tried and true method
espionage technique, laced with danger, intrigue, and sex. These days—as Australian
soldiers have found out the hard way—all it takes to seduce your way to state ...
Gizmodo
Bing Search and Browse your Facebook Friends' Photos on Bing ...
Looking for that epic shot from last winter's ski trip? Or the I-could-die-laughing photo
of your roommate's cat dancing? With more than 300 million photos ...
www.bing.com/.../search-and-browse-your-facebook-friend-s-...

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